1. agricultural scientists
With experience, they may advance to jobs such as supervisors of research programs or managers of other agriculture-related activities. Employment of agricultural scientists is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through 2008. Past agricultural research has resulted in the development of higher-yielding crops, crops with better resistance to pests and plant pathogens, and chemically-based fertilizers and pesticides. ... Agricultural scientists are using new research to develop plants and food crops that require less fertilizer, fewer pesticides and herbicide...
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